A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages
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A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages
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Re: A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages
#2Lambdas are relegated to relative obscurity until Java makes them popular by not having them.
Alright, this was surprisingly amusing. Thanks.
Re: A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages
#3Each one of those was quite amusing.
1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP.
1983 - Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he's ever heard of onto C to create C++. The resulting language is so complex that programs must be sent to the future to be compiled by the Skynet artificial intelligence.
I genuinely laughed out loud at this article.
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#4My favorite:
1972 - Dennis Ritchie invents a powerful gun that shoots both forward and backward simultaneously. Not satisfied with the number of deaths and permanent maimings from that invention he invents C and Unix.
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#5Hmm, no mention of Erlang. I'll add one.
1986 - Inspired by Prolog, Joe Armstrong designs a massively scalable messaging system that allows computers to SMS each other and has the attention span of a teenager. He calls it Erlang.
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#6Each one of those was quite amusing. 1958 - John McCarthy and Paul Graham invent LISP. 1983 - Bjarne Stroustrup bolts everything he's ever heard of onto C to create C++. The resulting language is so complex that programs must be sent to the future to be compiled by the Skynet artificial intelligence. I genuinely laughed out loud at this article.
As did I. I laughed out loud at most all of them.
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#7Oh my God! That was the best belly laugh I've had in a long time. Very fun read.
>1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later stil, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript.
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#8Oh my God! That was the best belly laugh I've had in a long time. Very fun read. > 1995 - Brendan Eich reads up on every mistake ever made in designing a programming language, invents a few more, and creates LiveScript. Later, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of Java the language is renamed JavaScript. Later stil, in an effort to cash in on the popularity of skin diseases the language is renamed ECMAScript.
The footnote's better!
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#9"""Alan Kay creates Smalltalk and invents the term "object oriented." When asked what that means he replies, "Smalltalk programs are just objects." When asked what objects are made of he replies, "objects." When asked again he says "look, it's all objects all the way down. Until you reach turtles"""
Re: A brief, incomplete and mostly wrong history of programming languages
#10Not as accurate or complete as http://www.levenez.com/lang/lang.pdf , but a nice read.
And if anyone is wondering (as I was) how many programming languages there are, http://people.ku.edu/~nkinners/LangList/Extras/langlist.htm has information on about 2500 languages.